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So here's what I ended up doing - I went back and used the green filter in the black and white conversion of Photoshop CS 3 - it's been my experience that this is the best result when converting rust to black and white. I did tone it down a bit by using a second black and white conversion above it with no filter, then using the opacity slider for the green filtered layer to tone down the green filtering a bit. I more or less did the things I planned in the previous discussion, though found that if I toned down the lower left corner it didn't look right, so I lightened the upper right a little and undid the effect in the bottom left. In total there were about 10 adjustment layers after the black and white conversion, applying various curves locally.
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hi George,
i think you nailed this image.
i am pretty quiet on your blog although i read it regularly. if i don't have anything unique to add to the discussion i'd rather stay quiet, but i'm always here: reading and considering.
getting these abstract forms to work right is quite a challenge. i'm not currently any good at it myself (i shoot a completely different style: street photography) but i like to read your thoughts about how you try to accomplish certain abstract effects within your photos. it helps me to appreciate your successes so much more...
...and i think this is one of the best images i've seen on your blog for a while. i have a very visceral, emotional reaction to it, even if i can't currently explain all of why (i'll have to come back and consider it some more). anyway, i thought you deserved some "vocalized" congratulations for making this image work so well. keep it up.
Lee:
much appreciated. I'm pretty excited about it too. I'm intrigued that you are a street photographer, something I can't even see me beginning - too shy, too awkward, seems invasive, what if people get upset etc. etc.
Perhaps you'd like to write an essay on what it's like to shoot the street and I can publish it here. I suspect your comments would be helpful to others. Doesn't matter if you are an old hand or expert, just the process and goals and so on would be great.
I´m too much in love with the color-version :)
Greetings from munich! Bo
PS: got the same problem with street photography. Looking forward to an article from Lee ;)
i'd be happy to write a bit about street photography if you'd like me to, George. i've got a lot of unorganized thoughts about the whole process floating about in my head and it'd be good to have an excuse to shape them into something more understandable.
Lee:
contact me directly by email george dot barr at shaw dot ca
George
Hi George,
I really like the before/after views that you publish - especially this one.
I guess this is not really the purpose of your blog, but I would really appreciate if you could explain in detail the work that you did under Photoshop. Could you, for example, post a screenshot of the layers of the photoshop file and explain it? That would really help us understand what you have done!
Olivier:
too late for this image. I have done so for other images in the past and can see if I can recreate this image while saving the progress.
George
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